The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1887-07-01
THE GOODNESS OF NEW WORKERS.

THE GOODNESS OF NEW WORKERS,
Joe Howard, Jr.-Interstate Ten Conn
mandments-Other Matters.
Especial Correspondence
NEW York, June 20.
II don't think look like tramp" well
known western newspaper worker now in the
metropolis said to me the other day, "but if
say good morning as though meant it at our
boarding house, the person 1 say it to will
look at me suspiciously, as if saying 'Ah! you
want to borrow dollar A hearty laugh
would shake down the wall, fear, so we all
sit, touching elbows three times q day, and
never speak. a good, leisurely meal is uil-
known. Everybody swallows his victuals as
though to eat was painful duty God had i'll
ficted upon him. Every now and again
meet some old college chum, and hearty
greeting seems to amaze him. Like ones
fellow boarder, he will look at ME with suspi-
clon and after shaking hands i'll kind of
abstracted way, as though inwardly offering
an apology to his conscience for doing so, will
hurry away, glad to know he has escaped
being asked for n loan" NY friend walled
in my ear for half an hour over the cold sus
picion with which he swears New Yorkers
regard strangers and don't know but, after
all, he is half right.
#*4
Joe Howard has been made famous by
many newspaper tales and as many Villain
Gus cuts. His personality is marked. One
would notice him i'll any assemblage,
because there is something about him.
though widely different from his fel-
lows, which says newspaper man" from
head TO heel. He has peculiar, easy, fam-
lar air, which says to dignity .'you are o
sham" When he makes speech his remarks
are sure to smack of this personality, and as
his bald head rolls around on his shoulders
that his spectacled eyes may take in every in-
tliviiua in the asseinbage he will talk by
the hour, apparently without effort, crowding
versatile nothings together in such fashion
that every one is entertained. On the street
his head gear is sure to be the latest silk tile,
glistening and new. His shoes gleam also,
and dark suit with cutaway coat, bright
and natty, completes the equipment. Since
his quarrel with Pulitzer, of The World. Mr..
Howard has not been connected with the staff
of any New York paper.
#**
The Brooklyn Elevated Railroad company
persists in keeping singular rule in force;
cash fares are required and tickets are not
sold under any circumstances except at the
bridge and Fulton ferry where they are sold
one at time or enough to pass q party,
but not in bunches. The employees say there
is not single advantage in this system, that
all the New York roads sell packages of
tickets, and that crowds could be much better
handled if tickets were sold in quantities.
e.- #**
The parks teem with people these warm
days. Baby carriages roll about by the
dozen and little girls bring croquet SETS set
then. up in the Fairgrounds and knock the
striped balls about by the hour, while the
boys turn somersaults and roll down the
knobs with a zest which is healthful even to
see. Fat, complacent nurses gossip under the
trees, benignant papas read the papers and
provident nammas knit and look on from
some shady nook When night comes on
homeless vagrants curl up on the benches and
there pass the night.
**n
Somebody has sent the West Shore rail-
road people here the following ten command
ments, protesting to give the substance of the
interstate commerce law: ,s
!. Thou shalt have no other interstate COM
merce bill but the Cullom bill
q Thou shalt not make unto thyself any rules
and regulations for carrying of freight and pas
sengers in the likeness of anything that is in the
heavens above or on the earth beneath, or that is
in the water under the earth. f
g. Thou shalt not bow down to any railroad
president or general passenger agent or freight
agent, for we, the commission, are not SO green
as we look, and if there is to be any bowing
down and doing the grand we want all there is
going.
a. Remember the 5th of April, and don't you for.
get it, ye who have been getting over the
country on ANNALS, for then did the passes fall
like the leaves of the chestnut tree In a Novem-
Der gale, and there is no helpin re.
5. II you must cuss cuss Cullom, for his is the
bill that the senator from Illinois giveth thee
6. Thou shalt not unjustly discriminate. We
will never agree as to what ''unjustly" means,
SO you must be particularly careful about the
sixth commandment .--t.A
z. Thou shalt not commit thyself to greater
extent for short haul than for long haul, even
if 1t does take more carpet for q long hall.
8. Thou shalt not have any-addition, division
and silence.
9. Thou shalt not bear railroad stocks unless
thou art short in the market
10. Thou shalt not pass thy neighbor nor thy
neighbor's wife, nor his man servant, nor his
maid servant, even if he traveleth with his OK
and his ass and the other members OF the com.
mission. @ 4#E e-.st
Appended. And thou shalt rub in all these
commandments until the people weary and rage
and imagine vain thing snd break up the whole
business. ...-.s- r=g
***
A New York journalist has oeen 10 unfortu-
nate as to lose the sight of one eye. Though
not at all sensitive on the subject, it has be-
come bore to answer inquiries about how
the loss came about. He was greeted by an
old friend in a crowded railway station With:
"Why, halloo, John, how did you lose your
eyesght"
"Well," replied the journalist. rolling out
the words in solemn and high sounding
manner, but with all seriousness. IL con-
tracted muco purulent conjunctivitis, and
bad cold supervening, it modified to purulent
opthalmia, which resulted in liberation of the
cornea; this progressed to the point of sta
phyloma, which finally healed with cicatriza-
tion and consequent opacity Of the cornea."
The friend stared moment, but as he
turned on his heel muttered: .sfhe id thing
did well to go out" c. c. MCDONALD